Thomas Butler , KB, 7th "The Wool" Earl of Ormond 
Thomas was born in 1426 in Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland. Thomas' father was James Butler , 4th "The White" Earl of Ormond and his mother was Joan Beauchamp. His paternal grandparents were James Butler , 3rd Earl of Ormond and Anne de Welles; his maternal grandparents were William Beauchamp , KG, Lord Bergavenny, Sir and Joan FitzAlan. He had a brother and a sister, named James and Elizabeth. He was the youngest of the three children. He died at the age of 89 on August 3rd, 1515 in St Thomas Acon, London, Middlesex, England.General Notes
Thomas Butler, KB, 7th Earl of Ormond, Baron Ormond de Rocheford, d. 3 Aug 1515, KB 6 Jul 1483; m. (1) Anne Hankeford; m. (2) bef. Nov 1496, Lora Berkeley, d. bef. 30 Dec 1501, daughter of Sir Edward Berkeley of Beverton, co. Gloucester, by Christian Holt, daughter of Richard Holt of Coldrey, Hants. [Ancestral Roots]
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The first English Parliament of Henry VII followed suit [after the Irish Parliament in 1475 in reversing the attainder of the Earls of Ormond], so that the 7th Earl (the youngest of the three brothers), whom the Irish called "The Earl of Wool," was one of the wealthiest of the king's subjects in England. In 1489 he was created Lord Ormond, a barony in the peerage of England, which on his death fell into abeyance between his daughters. The son of one of them inherited from him no less than 36 manors in England. The son of the other daughter was father of Anne Boleyn. After bequeathing his treasured heirloom of an ancient gold and ivory drinking horn to his namesake and grandson, Thomas Boleyn (the father of Anne), the 7th Earl died in 1515 and was buried in an Easter Sepulchre on the north side of the high altar in the chapel of St Thomas Acon, London, built where St Thomas Becket was supposed to have been born.
The earldom of Ormond then passed to his heir male, Red Piers, great-grandson of Sir Richard Butler of Knocktopher. [Butler Family History]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.> 1361 in Gowran, Kilkenny, Ireland d.BET. 6 - 7 SEP 1405 in of Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
- b.~ 1392 in Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland d.23 Aug 1452 in Ardee Castle, Louth, Ireland (of the plague)
- b.< 1362 in Gainsby, Lincolnshire, England d.> 1396
- b.1426 in Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland d.03 Aug 1515 in St Thomas Acon, London, Middlesex, England
- b.1237 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.BET 5 AND 9 JUN 1298 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- b.1278 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England d.12 Aug 1315 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1237 in Shere, Surrey, England d.BET 16 AND 17 APR 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England
- b.14 FEB 1313/14 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England d.16 Nov 1369 in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Normandy, France (of plague)
- b.1255 in Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England d.<29 Jul 1295 in Gascony, then Paris, France (as a prisoner)
- b.~ 1283 in Castle Maud, Radnorshire, Wales d.BEF 15 FEB 1324/25
- b.1260 in Probably a Scotswoman d.> 1283
- b.~ 1358 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England d.08 May 1411 in Black Friars, Hereford, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1315 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.1371 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1396 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales d.BET. 3 - 5 AUG 1430
- b.01 May 1285 in Castle Marlborough, Sussex, England d.17 Nov 1326 in Beheaded at Hereford, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1313 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England d.24 JAN 1375/76 in Arundel, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1285 in Warren, Sussex, England d.<23 May 1338
- b.25 Mar 1346 in Arundel, Sussex, England d.21 Sep 1397 in Beheaded in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1375 in Arundel, Sussex, England d.14 Nov 1435 in Black Friars, Hereford, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1276 in Pleshey Castle, Essex, England d.16 MAR 1321/22 in Battle of Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England (slain)
- b.~ 1312 in Caldecot, Northamptonshire, England d.16 Sep 1360 in Caldecot, Northamptonshire, England
- b.Aug 1282 in Rhuddlan Castle, Flintshire, Wales d.05 May 1316 in Quendon, Essex, England
- b.~ 1350 in Herefordshire, England d.03 Apr 1385
- b.~ 1275 in Chilham Castle, Badlesmere, Kent, England d.14 Apr 1322 in Hanged, Drawn & Quartered at Canterbury, Kent, England
- b.1313 in Chilham Castle, Badlesmere, Kent, England d.08 Jun 1356 in Richmond Palace, Surrey, England
- b.1281 in Thormond, Connaught, Clare, Ireland d.1333 in Castle, Badlesmere, Kent, England
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Thomas and Anne were married in a religious ceremony before July 11th, 1445 in 1st wife. They had a daughter named Margaret.
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